[123] George S. Boutwell, Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2, p. 207.
[124] This opprobrious epithet first appeared in the New York Tribune of January 12, 1863, and in the Times of February 13.
[125] The Union League Club of New York was organized February 6, 1863; its club house, No. 26 E. 17th St., was opened May 12.
[126] F.W. Seward, Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 3, p. 159.
[127] Horatio Seymour, Public Record, pp. 85-105.
[128] T.W. Barnes, Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 428.
[129] Nicolay-Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 7, pp. 10, 11.
[130] New York Times, August 18, 1879.
[131] "Governor Seymour was a patriotic man, after his fashion, but his hatred of the Lincoln Administration was evidently deep; and it was also clear that he did not believe that the war for the Union could be brought to a successful termination."—Andrew D. White, Autobiography, Vol. 1, p. 105.
[132] Nicolay-Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 7, p. 11.